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		<td>Here is a collection of useful commands to make you even more 
		productive.<h2>
		Directly 
		editing widget text in the Design View</h2>
<p>To quickly edit the text property a component, select the component in the <b>
<a href="userinterface/design_view.html">Design View</a></b><span style="mso-spacerun: yes">, 
and hit the <b>Space</b></span> key to reveal an edit box in which you can set 
the component's text property.</p>
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		<img src="userinterface/images/direct_edit.png" border="0"></p>
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		Adding multiple widgets of the same type</h2>
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		Multiple widgets of the same type may be added to the <b>
			<a href="userinterface/design_view.html">Design View</a> </b> by 
		holding down the <b>Ctrl</b> key when selecting the widget in the <b>
		<a href="userinterface/palette.html">Palette</a></b>.<h2>Editing 
		properties of multiple widgets at the same time</h2>
		<p>When multiple controls are selected, all of their shared properties 
		are listed in the <b><a href="userinterface/property_pane.html">Property 
		Pane</a></b>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </span>If not all the 
		selected controls have the same value for a property, the property 
		editor in the <b><a href="userinterface/property_pane.html">Property 
		Pane</a> </b>will be blank.</p>
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		Configuring the Palette</h2>
		<p>
		The <b><a href="userinterface/palette_manager.html">Palette Manager</a></b> 
		dialog allows the toolkit-specific palette to be fully configured. 
		Categories, and entries may be added, edited, rearranged and removed.<h2>
		Editing advanced widget properties</h2>
		<p>By default, the <b><a href="userinterface/property_pane.html">
		Property Pane</a> </b>displays normal properties. To edit expert 
		properties (shown in <i>italics</i>) click the <b>Show advanced 
		properties
			</b>
			<img border="0" src="userinterface/images/filter_advanced_properties.gif" width="16" height="16"> 
			button to reveal them. </p>
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		Reverting a widget property to its default value</h2>
		<p>To quickly revert a property to its default value, select the 
		property in the <b><a href="userinterface/property_pane.html">Property 
		Pane</a></b> and hit the <b>Delete</b> key or click
			<b>Restore default value</b>
			<img border="0" src="userinterface/images/properties_default.gif" width="16" height="16"> 
		button. </p>
		<h2>Hiding code from the parser</h2>
		<p>Code can be hidden from the parser by enclosing it in
		<a href="preferences/preferences_code_parsing.html">code hiding tags</a>. 
		This can be useful, if you need to add some complex dynamic code to your 
		layout that can't be parsed by the tool<b>.</b></td>
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